Chapter 116 Tempering
Since the day that the witch truly opened her inner eye, she gained the ability to distort spatial phenomena.
Seeing Ji Rong transform into a magic tree with its leaves growing enormous, she quickly opened the eye on her forehead. Her pupils widened, and layers of golden light burst forth from her eyes.
The golden light that burst from the witch's eyes reversed the original beam's range, distorting Ji Rong's image to the size of a blade of grass on the ground.
They then used the same method to distort and enlarge the stone's appearance;
Afterwards, she used her finger as a pen to carve the three characters "Quenching Pool" on a pebble.
As soon as the three-headed dragon in the branch of the spirit stream saw Ji Rong's roots arrive, it followed the roots and drilled into Ji Rong's spiritual platform, only to find that Ji Rong's spiritual platform had changed drastically.
A woman dressed in colorful clothes with a solemn expression sat in the original position of the altar, which she held in her hands.
The three-headed dragon was in a daze for a while before it followed the roots and veins into Ji Rong's spirit lake.
Some golden energy still remained in the Spirit Lake. As soon as the three-headed dragon entered the lake, the golden energy seeped into its spiritual body bit by bit.
The three-headed dragon looked delighted. As golden light continued to pour in, the three-headed dragon's ethereal body seemed to materialize. It only stayed inside for a short while before returning to the branch of the spiritual stream as if it had had enough.
When the ten members of the Wu tribe arrived, they indeed could not see Ji Rong and assumed that the stone standing there was a boulder with the name of the pool inscribed on it.
The method of distorting space and light used by the sorcerer is similar to illusion.
Jiao Jue could naturally see the distorted area of Yan Wu. He saw these Wu clan disciples take off their clothes, intending to pass through Ji Rong's giant leaves and enter the pool.
So, he squinted, flicked his tail, and roughly rolled up the ten witch clan members, dropping them from the air like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
As soon as these ten members of the witch clan entered the pool, it was as if they had entered an ocean of knowledge, with the vast knowledge washing over every inch of their bodies.
Within ten breaths, eight members of the witch clan showed signs of pain, struggling desperately as if drowning, and gradually sinking.
By the twentieth breath, the eighth struggling member of the witch clan had also sunk.
Yanwu stared at the two remaining clansmen in the pool, whose expressions had remained unchanged throughout, and suddenly sensed something was wrong.
She cried out, "Lord Golden Dragon, they are only at the Blood Transformation Realm, and now they have all sunk. They will probably drown."
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue dipped its head into the pool and, with one claw each, pulled the eight Wu Clan disciples ashore.
Yanwu quickly went forward to check on them one by one, and sure enough, they had all drunk their fill of water.
Seeing this, Yanwu quickly transformed into the Dharma form of the Witch Lord. She stretched out her hands and used a clever force to press them against the chests of the eight Witch Clan disciples, causing them to vomit water.
She held the hands of one of her people in each hand, gently channeling her spiritual energy into them to stabilize their meridians; then she replaced the hands with two others, repeating this process four times until she finally saved all eight people.
However, the eight people were greatly shocked and fell into a coma.
After this drowning incident, Yanwu and Jiaojue both stared intently at the two remaining people in the pool.
One person stayed for about an hour before he began to frown. Jiaojue raised its tail and curled up around him.
The other person stayed until the next morning before showing signs of discomfort, at which point Jiaojue also used its tail to curl up around her.
The two were progressing well in their training; the first one broke through immediately after leaving the pool, advancing to the Qi Condensation Realm.
The second person originally did not have an eye on her forehead. However, this tempering allowed her flesh and bones to be perfectly cleansed by spiritual energy and knowledge, causing an eye to appear on her forehead. Her cultivation level also rose to the Qi Condensation Realm.
After noon on the second day, the eight people who had sunk the previous day gradually awoke.
All eight of them had tempered their flesh and blood, increasing their strength.
Of these, six were unharmed and had become more educated than before; two illiterate people who had never studied before were even able to write their own names.
The remaining two suffered brain damage, their intelligence deteriorated, and they became like three-year-old children.
These two were dumbfounded. After waking up, they started playing together. While everyone was talking, they ran to Ji Zhuang's field and drooled as they picked and ate the spiritual herbs that hadn't grown properly yet.
Ji Rong gathered up the roots, and she and the witch felt guilty as they watched the two of them wildly eating the spiritual materials raw.
Ji Rong, as the owner of the Ancestral Tree, had no idea how much knowledge it could impart, because even she couldn't see how much knowledge she possessed within herself.
Each time she absorbs a divine soul, the ancestral tree within her body will trace its origins and inscribe veins. These veins, rich in knowledge, are mostly incomprehensible to Ji Rong herself.
Moreover, because of the success of the Wu clan, Ji Rong, Jiao Jue, and the Wu clan all overlooked the individual differences among the Wu clan members.
Perhaps from the very beginning, Ji Rong was unable to unfurl so many leaves, or perhaps she needed to screen these people's intelligence beforehand; if someone was truly indifferent to knowledge, then she simply shouldn't have entered in the first place.
But since things have come to this, there's no point in saying more.
Jiao Jue and Tuan Wu escorted the ten people out and explained the situation to Wu Guang.
Wu Guang will take good care of the two who have become mentally challenged.
This time, they brought back fifty disciples from the ancient witch lineage who worked in the mines.
Having learned from their previous experience, before setting off, the witch and the shaman summoned the fifty people into a separate cave and told them that tempering their bodies with spiritual energy would make them stronger, but there was also a risk of them becoming stupid. If they did not want to temper their bodies, they could choose to withdraw.
Then they were allowed to make their choice on the spot, and ultimately, 47 out of the 50 people were willing to continue the training.
Jiaojue and Xuanwu then led the forty-seven people back to Tuifeng Island.
This time, Ji Rong only grew three leaves to loosely surround the tempering pool.
However, as soon as the forty-seven people entered, thirty-one of them immediately began to struggle.
Jiaojue immediately flew down, using all five claws to grab and pull the thirty-one people up.
This time, Jiao Jue acted quickly. None of the thirty-one people became stupid, but they gained nothing and their efforts were in vain.
Jiao Jue anticipated that he would be away for a long time, so he left the thirty-one people to Ji Zhuang, instructing Ji Zhuang to lead them to continue mining and farming, and in short, not to be idle.
The remaining sixteen people were all dragged out by Jiaojue in the next two hours.
Whether it's the spatial distortion technique of the witch or Ji Rong maintaining the body of the magic tree and urging the enlarged enlightenment leaves, both are extremely energy-consuming.
However, among the forty-seven people who underwent this tempering, not a single one opened the eye on their forehead. Only nine of them advanced to the Qi Condensation Realm. Jiao Jue felt his heart bleeding.
As they were leaving, Jiao Jue had Ji Rong carry them. He lay on the ground, squinting at Ji Rong and Xuan Wu, and said, "Quickly send this bunch of useless trash away. There's no need for them to go mining anymore. Go back to farming!"
"Have Wu Guang send over some good stuff. If it's still this junk, then don't bother coming."
Jiao Jue didn't even glance at Ji Rong carrying the forty-seven people, as if they were truly a bunch of useless trash.
Jiao Jue's words were like a mountain boulder, pressing down on the hearts of every member of the Wu tribe. Ji Rong felt as if the forty-seven Wu tribe members on her back were collapsing.
Ji Rong knew that Jiao Jue had fallen into his petty and arrogant ways, but if they went back like this, Ji Rong was worried that these forty-seven people would be crippled.
So she pointed at the horned jade with her wing and said, "Big brother, shut up. It's your incompetence that you can't promote them, it's not their fault."
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